XFCE is nice and similar to Gnome 2.x in both looks and performance. Speed is relative to the machine. I have no issues with the Gnome3 interface on my machine, aside from a few functionality annoyances.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 13:19 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > For years my favorite distribution was Fedora, seconded by Ubuntu. > > > > Now, I got fed up with the favorites bar, got fed up with Cinamon and > > Linux Mint 13 (mind you it was better human interface than the two) > > and went back to Debian with the laptop option. > > > > I guess since we spend so much time with the latest Gnome or Unity > > release, that we fail to realize how bad they are. Debian gui > > interface flies. Click, and the display is immediately updated. > > Try that with the three I mentioned. > > > > Boot times also seems more quick. > > The only issue i see and trust me it is on the horizon. is what happens > when wheezy comes out aka the next debian stable and your forced onto > gnome3 anyways. > > I too run debian and am using gnome2 but i will not fight the change > that is coming. The only thing left is someone continues patching gnome > 2.3x and adding features but it seems so far that nobody is up to the > task. > > The distro's themselves just repackage the upstream product and so that > means no more gnome2 since upstream has next to dropped it. > > I remember when gnome first came out and everyone including me hated it > and preferred kde . > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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